photo: SOPA Images / LightRocket (Getty Images) TikTok has already conquered the world. Millions of people (including me…) spend far too many hours on the popular video sharing app, watching thousands of bite-sized, often very funny, clips created by other users. And now, seemingly to suck away the few remaining hours of your day, the ...
photo: John Normile (Getty Images) Tragedy struck New York on May 14 when an 18-year-old white man at least 10 people shot and killed in the city of Buffalo, police said. The shooter, whose online username is reportedly “jimboboiii,” was taken into custody after livestreaming the whole thing on gaming platform Twitch, the company confirmed ...
On Saturday, the Chinese government announced a series of changes to how children can access and interact with content online. The National Radio and Television Administration said, “Platforms need to step up controls to prevent underage users from tipping live streamers or becoming a live streamer themselves without guardian consent”. When Reuters reportthis comes in ...
It’s a bold move Twitch, let’s see if it pays off.screenshot: TikTok / bradeazy / Kotaku Twitch is reportedly considering major changes to monetization practices, which streamers are upset about because the potentially biased percentages improve Twitch’s bottom line. according to a Bloomberg Amazon, Twitch’s parent company, is reportedly considering several changes to its affiliate ...
screenshot: Amourant / Kotaku On April 12th, top Twitch streamer and content creator Kaitlyn “amourant” Siragusa announced their intention to leave OnlyFans this June. She tweeted that she had a $350,000-$400,000 investment in Twitch and that she had plans to move “influencers” and the “creator economy” into what has traditionally been the domain and competency ...
WowGrandma78, the older streamer who has been broadcasting on the platform since January 2020, celebrated her 80th birthday Last month. To honor their eight decades around the sun, WowGrandma78 is hosting a multi-day sub-athon on Twitch, which is entering its 15th day at the time of writing. It’s unclear if she plans to quit anytime ...
If you have visited Félix “xQc” Lengyel’s twitch channel Lately you’ve noticed that he’s been doing a lot Grand Theft Auto Online Role playing and reactions to video content. It’s good. It’s his channel, so he can do whatever he wants with it… or maybe not? A small but vocal portion of its million-strong community ...
In a needless turn of events, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins threatens fellow streamer Imane “Pokimane” Anys with defamation charges. Welcome to 2022, dear ones. From here it gets wild. It all started on Jan. 12 when popular YouTuber Jidion “JiDion” Adams, for reasons unclear, flooded Pokimane’s Twitch channel in a so-called hate raid. It sucked, especially ...
image: Twitch / Kotaku A new open letter by Angela Hession, vice president of global trust and security at Twitch, describes the company’s approach to making its streaming platform a more harmonious place, specifically deleting millions of bots to curb those of the site Hate raid epidemic. “Over the past 12 months, we’ve rolled out ...
Screenshot: Pokimane / Twitch Pokimane, one of Twitch’s biggest and most popular streamers with over 8.5 million followersShe was banned from the platform while streaming the cartoon last night Avatar: The Last Airbender. The ban is temporary, according to Pokimane, but a sign that Twitch’s growing “TV meta” is likely to cause further problems for ...
